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by Julia Dahl David McNew/Getty Images When an Apple programmer’s project got canceled, he didn’t despair. He just kept sneaking into the office until the program was finished. Ron Avitzur knew his project was doomed. By the time his bosses cut the cord in August 1993, his team was actually...

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The first set of Raspberry Pi computers will be available for $35 on February 20, reports Ars Technica. The computer (pictured right) is a barebones device in every sense -- you'll have to supply your own monitor and Bluetooth keyboard and mouse, but after that you've got a feisty...

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Remember the slow, luxurious unboxing photo sets and videos that used to accompany the release of new Apple products? There was always one aspect missing from these displays: the distinctive smell of fresh packaging and electronics, which has now been recreated for a gallery exhibition. Fragrance company Air Aroma...

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Since the launch of Google+, both Google and Facebook have been accused of ‘stealing’ ideas from one another to implement in their rapidly-growing social networks. It now appears that Google has taken a little office inspiration from its social rival, by outfitting its Mountain View HQ with vending machines that dispense...

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In need of a new computer, but holding out because you don't want to be saddled with a last-gen OS when Windows 8 lands? Worry not potential consumers, Microsoft plans to offer a cheap upgrade path to its latest and greatest if you buy in now. Well, not now,...

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The banners now decorating San Francisco’s Moscone Center, site of Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference next, indicate the event’s tagline this year is “Where great ideas go on to do great things.” It’s vague, as usual, and with the absence of any emailed event invitation, it’s harder to pinpoint what this year’s...

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After more than 50 years at the top of the heap, the CPU finally has some competition from an upstart called the SoC. For decades, you could walk into a shop and confidently pick out a new computer based on its CPU — and now, everywhere you look, from smartphones...

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Digitimes reports that Intel has apparently begun informing partners that mass availability of its forthcoming Ivy Bridge processors will be delayed until "after June". Intel is said to be sticking to its initial schedule calling for an April introduction of Ivy Bridge, but only very limited supplies of the chips...

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Back in January, blogger Seattle Rex announced that he would be suing Apple over issues related to his 2008 MacBook Pro that appears to have suffered from an NVIDIA graphics card failure. According to Rex, the graphics chip on his top-of-the-line 17-inch MacBook Pro began to flake out late last...

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Today, Google announced that it will feature 3D models of entire metropolitan areas on mobile devices in Google Earth. It’s doing so by working on new imagery and rendering techniques, combined with new computer vision tech that automates creation of cityscapes in full 3D. The 3D rendering will come complete with buildings,...

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Google is going to start selling glasses with computers in them, the New York Times's Nick Bilton has been reporting. The computer "screen" will be graphics layered over the lenses, kind of like a "heads-up display" or "HUD" in a fighter jet. The computer glasses will run on Android,...

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Apple unveiled a brand new MacBook Pro today that has one of the highest-resolution displays on the market. At the same time, the new computer is still even thinner than the existing MacBook Pro and still packs as much of a punch as the computer. It has a bigger price...

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Police officers in San Francisco will soon begin testing a new computer app to help them file reports faster and easier than before — and a new mobile application is under development that will take things even further. 60 laptops are being provided by HP, and will be put...

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Enlarge / Want Geek Squad to set up your PC? Just write your e-mail password in that box on the left A basic rule of password-based security is "don't write down your password." A second rule might be "don't train people to write down passwords." And a third rule,...

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Photo via iFixit While teardown experts iFixit gave the retina MacBook Pro low ratings when it comes to user reparability, the non-retina MacBook Pro introduced at WWDC last week turned out to be quite the opposite. The team completed its ritualistic teardown of the mid-2012 MacBook Pro on Wednesday...

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Well, what the heck. For the second straight month, according to the well-regarded NetMarketShare, Chrome lost global aggregate market share. Internet Explorer 9 surged, but IE as a whole eased, just like Chrome. Firefox, on the strength of its 10th version (which is quite good), eked minor gains. We watch this...

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Here is a very cool — if slightly creepy — video that debuted the the Game Developers Conference this week in San Francisco. Made by the Paris-based Quantic Dream, developers of the groundbreaking “Heavy Rain” game, the “Kara” concept video is a look at the future of gaming, using...

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In Taipei, the annual Computex is just beginning and Asus has wasted no time introducing numerous new computer designs for Microsoft Windows 8. The range of products covers laptops, desktops, Ultrabooks and more. Each offers some new unique twists and turns – including one laptop with two screens — but...

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Apple is a truly great company with excellent customer service. However, it is far from perfect, as I had to find out the hard way. I spent three months dealing with a faulty Wi-Fi card in my $2,000 MacBook Pro, which was covered by Apple Care, because its customer...

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On Monday, JCPenney announced that it's no longer going to pay employees commission. It's a big shift, since sales staff in six different JCPenney departments have traditionally received it. Why is this happening? It's likely because JCPenney CEO Ron Johnson, the mind behind the Apple Store when he headed up...

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The intrepid gearheads over at iFixIt have already hacked up a new MacBook Pro with Retina display! Check out their photographs of each step of the process to learn a little bit about the components in the new computer and how it's built.Here's the new MacBook Pro, showing off its...

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Acer has begun selling a new Ultrabook (thin laptop) with a new Nvidia graphics chip. The new machine is the first Ultrabook that has a stand-alone graphics chip in addition to the integrated graphics in the laptop’s Intel chip. That means the new computer will be thin, light and still...

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Yesterday we wrote about the big risk Microsoft is taking with its new Windows 8 operating system. In a nutshell: The new Windows is getting bad reviews, and there's a good chance it will be a dud that consumers skip. Unlike the last time Microsoft had a dud with Vista,...

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Crowdstrike, a new computer security start-up launched earlier this year with a $26 million investment from private equity fund Warburg Pincus said today it had made its first major management hire. The company said it had signed Shawn Henry, the FBI’s former executive assistant director of the Criminal, Cyber, Response,...

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HP's 13-inch Folio is the company's latest entry in the Ultrabook category, which captured a lot of attention at this year's Consumer's Electronics Show. If you're unfamiliar, Ultrabooks are sleek, extra-slim computers that weigh as little as possible while still maintaining full computer functionality. They compete directly with Apple's...

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For better or worse, it seems as if Windows 8 will be available in nine separate editions. That’s up three flavors from Windows 7. The unofficial news comes from a registry key found within the Windows 8 Consumer Preview. If this key is to be believed, Windows 8 will be...

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Microsoft, just like Apple, usually runs a major back-to-school promotion every summer that is meant to give students (and their parents) some extra incentives to buy a new computer. The company’s just-announced back-to-school deal for the U.S. and Canada is pretty much the same as last year’s. A year ago,...